Profiles

I guess the more successful people become, the more criticism they face. Serial entrepreneur and purveyor of happiness in business Tony Hsieh, best known as CEO of Zappos.com, is facing a surprising level of criticism for embracing the self-management concept of Holacracy at his company of about 1,500 employees. Created by... [ read more ]

I recently caught up with Peter Hart, CEO of Rideau Recognition, and asked for his thoughts on the engagement movement and its impact on the recognition field. Rideau acquired the Recognition Management Institute in 2006 and has been a consistent supporter of, and active participant in, the field’s trade organization, Recognition Professionals International, and othe... [ read more ]

Backed by the commitment of Prime Minister David Cameron, the topic of employee engagement is a bonafide movement in Great Britain. David MacLeod, co-founder, with his professional colleague Nita Clarke, of the Engage for Success effort at Engageforsuccess.org, the U.K., ... [ read more ]

With over 20 years of experience running large loyalty programs, Bryan Pearson, President of LoyaltyOne, is a good person to query about the state of the industry. So we asked him whether he felt that programs were addressing all of the ... [ read more ]

Over the past year or two we’ve seen a surprising increase in the number of different types of technologies and services touting their ability to address various areas of customer, employee and distributor partner engagement – from leadership, coaching, assessment and communications to collaboration, innovation, rewards & recognition and analysis.... [ read more ]

Founder and CEO Michael Rappaport talks with ESM about how he keeps turnover low and morale high among his pool of top-tier talent It always gets our attention when we receive a press release from a company touting its commitment to employee engagement, so we followed up on a recent release from Chariot Solutions to find out why.... [ read more ]

Don’t be fooled by the name – an acronym for Consumer Health Incentive Program – ChipRewards means business when it says its passion is for behavioral science. In fact, the company's Chief Scientist, Josh Klapow, is a clinical psychologist who was a professor for 20 years at... [ read more ]

What attracted Bob Randall to the engagement space and prompted him to launch an engagement technology and advisory service is the level of measurability he soon learned very few companies apply to their engagement efforts. Will the crisis cause that to change? ... [ read more ]

This profile of Kenneth C. Frazier, the CEO of Merck & Co., a leading pharmaceutical firm based in Kenilworth, NJ, continues ESM’s new Quality People Management CEO series honoring chief executives at organizations that base their success on a strategic and systematic approach to engaging all stakeholders -customers, distribution partners, sales and nonsales employees, vendors and communities. ... [ read more ]

This profile of Gary Vaynerchuk, the CEO of VaynerMedia, a fast-growing New York-based digital marketing agency, continues ESM's new Quality People Management CEO series honoring chief executives at organizations that base their success on a strategic and systematic approach to engaging all stakeholders - customers, distribution partners, sales and nonsales employees, vendors and communities. ... [ read more ]

Business leader Bill George couldn't make it any plainer in a recent LinkedIn article: CEOs have to step up to a strategic and systematic approach to engaging all stakeholders.... [ read more ]

Founded in 2016 in Salt Lake City, Xvoyant has developed a unique technology that aims to transform the cloud-based Salesforce CRM platform from a 'system of record into an Enterprise Sales Engagement platform to drive action and engagement,' explains CEO Rob Jeppsen. ... [ read more ]

Lee S. Webster, co-founder of the International Center for Enterprise Engagement at the Healthcare Management Institute of the University of Texas Medical Branch, explains how formal standards can benefit the many specific areas of engagement not yet addressed by the International Organization for Standardization.... [ read more ]

Although it was founded shortly after the Enterprise Engagement Alliance, the United Kingdom's Engage for Success initiative has a significant advantage: it was created in part with the support of the government of Prime Minister David Cameron, who took a personal interest in the movement. ... [ read more ]

To Mike Sinoway, a research and analytics veteran, the next big challenge for business is not the collection of data but the ability to translate it into strategies and tactics to effectively engage customers and employees. Sinoway is the new CEO at MaritzCX, formerly Allegiance ... [ read more ]

Ketchum, one of the world's leading communications firms, and Daggerwing Group, a management consultancy, have merged Ketchum’s leadership and change management unit, Ketchum Change, with Daggerwing Group... [ read more ]

MotivAction is a Minneapolis-based performance improvement company founded in 1976. The firm recently joined the Enterprise Engagement Alliance (EEA). ESM recently sat down with MotivAction President and COO Joe Keller to talk about his company and the emerging field of engagement. ... [ read more ]

Kevin is a renowned leadership expert, a two-time bestselling author, speaker, consultant, trainer and coach. He is also the Chief Potential Officer of the Kevin Eikenberry Group, a leadership and... [ read more ]

Despite overwhelming C-suite interest in the topic of Enterprise Engagement, and compelling evidence of its importance to organizational success, HR leader Ruth Ross says most companies don’t have a formal strategy. In this interview, she says that despite an increasingly competitive and challenging business climate and facts and figures that demonstrate that... [ read more ]

Founder and Chief Achiever Razor Suleman tells ESM how his firm has evolved in the engagement space by downplaying features and functions and selling solutions. Perhaps no other company in the incentive, recognition, or loyalty business warrants closer attention these days than Achievers. ... [ read more ]

Q: Tell us a bit about Rymax’s history and its philosophy regarding ‘Loyalty Marketing.’ A: Rymax has been in this arena for over 18 years. We entered the space with a very distinct business strategy that incorporated key differentiating factors, such as providing rewards with high brand equity; offering rewards that are the latest and greatest, and not closeouts; creating a unique experience for clients via an analysis of their demographic and psychographic... [ read more ]

Q: How did Premier Business Solutions get started? Joyce Manthay and I started the company in 2001 after 15+ years working in various marketing and sales management positions in Corporate America. We had experience outsourcing to companies like ours to support the brands we managed, and we knew that we could provide far superior services – hence the beginning of our now 12-year-old company.... [ read more ]

Q: Tell us a bit about Bunchball – how did the company come together? A: I started Bunchball in 2005 as a social gaming company. In the process of building out that product, we started exploring the world of game mechanics and realized their power to motivate any kind of behavior, not just gameplay. So in 2007 we shifted focus to... [ read more ]